SOURCE:
https://groovyhistory.com/viet-cong-execution-saigon-photo/6
From January to September 1968, North Vietnamese forces launched a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam, proof that American forces had failed to quash the guerilla combatants. Death squads made their way through the cities, killing anyone who wasn’t joining their revolution. Captured in a building in the Cho Lon quarter of Saigon, Nguyễn Văn Lém was a member of the Viet Cong whose downfall began in the Tet Offensive.
Allegedly Lém was arrested for cutting the throats of South Vietnamese Lt Col Nguyen Tuan, his wife, their six children and the officer’s 80-year-old mother. On top of that, he was leading a Viet Cong team whose whole deal was taking out members of the National Police and their families. A the time of his death, Lém should have been considered a prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention, but because he was dressed in civilian clothing and he wasn’t carrying a firearm, he was technically seen as an “illegal combatant.”
During the Tet Offensive, Lém was on a bloodthirsty tear through Saigon. He may look boyish, but he had the heart of a killer. The photo shows Lém handcuffed and in civilian clothing, but he was operating a death squad that had killed 34 that same day.
He allegedly took out seven police officers, multiple members of their families, and even a few Americans. Each victim was bound by their wrists and shot in the back of the head, execution style. Because he wasn’t wearing the outfit of a solider this put him in a bad scenario.
As a person committing war crimes he was in a bad way, especially with General Loan coming after him. Not only had he carried out a gruesome act, but he was eligible for immediate execution.
Looks like the pistol has been photoshopped.
Were there hammerless .38s back then?
Well...looks like hammerless goes way back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerless
Pic still doesn’t look right to me though.
This lie was perpetrated by the same bass turds who are sending Americans into communism right now. The people in this country are so self-centered and gullible that they believe anything. That’s why the “rich, Ethiopian prince” who needs your bank account number is still working the internet.
When writing a story about fake news don't reprint more. At the embassy they cut down a bunch of trees and were able to land helicopters on the ground. The famous photo of the rooftop evacuation was of a building used by the CIA.
The justification for executing this guy has been known for years. He was bad. The police were doing the right thing under those conditions. Nothing new here.
This story comes around every so often.
Eddie Adams, the photographer, said he wished he’d never taken it. He knew the context and didn’t realize it would get airplay without it.
Loan caught up with the vicious VC prick and didn’t have time or interest in going thru any pleasantries during Tet. SOB deserved to get dead.
Goebbels was supposed to be this horrible man.....he was just another propagandist like those before and after him.
Fortunately, today, we have a better chance at seeing the lies early in the process.
Trump/Russia Collusion comes to mind.....
The media showed their true colors for the first time in the Vietnam war, pro marxist, pro communist. We could have won that war 10 times over had we wanted to but LBJs disasterous administration and Nixon’s waffling meant we through away 56,000 lives for nothing.
Biden's COWARDLY abandonment in Afghanistan was far worse than Viet Nam, IMO
I did my time (68-76) and remember it all. It's ironic that those 'hippies' of the 60s who were against US involvement in Vietnam (which was in accordance with SEATO, BTW - how come that was inappropriate for us then but okay now for NATO and Ukraine?) are now largely infesting our deep-state government (i.e., DEMOCRATS like the Clintons)
been done looong ago...
but it was ignored
I have thought of this photo for years. To tell the truth I did not even know the story of who was pulling the trigger and how it was supposed to make American’s want to quit the war, that it was all propaganda. I had no interest in all of that even though my brother was in Vietnam. I just took things as they happened and figured we needed to be there because, if you remember, Vietnam was the rice bowl of the world and we needed to keep it free from Communism. For years I thought just go in and slam ‘em all and get out. I still think that. As far as I’m concerned, Ukraine is another eg; of that whole mess in Vietnam.
Now I know the real story behind this photo and it makes more sense to me.
He needed killing!
The story of this picture makes the rounds every few years. The events of why this happened and how the press manipulated it were all known years ago.
This reads like American Thinker just rewrote Wikipedia entries and spun them together as if this is a new story, which it is not.
***Bay Lop, was a death squad psychopath in the Viet Cong who just got done massacring 34 innocent people.***
I believe some of those massacred were kin to the South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguyễn Ngọc Loan who is pulling the trigger.
I am reminded of a photo from the 1970s of cops holding down and pummeling a black man. The photo was cropped to remove the dead cop a few feet away the perp had just killed.
i had always thought this showed the evils of communism...
right answer through the wrong meaning of the picture.
i am better off knowing the story behind it.